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Charles E Finkenbiner
Hi All,
I have a computer with an Intel SE440BX motherboard which only supports
1 floppy drive. Since I have installed all the BIOS updates I can
disable the motherboard floppy and install an add-in card in order to
get support for 2 floppy drives.
So, I installed an ISA (16-bit) multi I/O card and used the floppy, LPT
and serial ports. When booting from the floppy both floppy drives work
fine. The problem happens once W2k Pro boots from the hard drive. W2k
Pro sees the floppies and installed the drivers with no problems.
The problem is that both floppy drives do not work under W2k Pro. When
I insert a disk, double click on the A: drive icon W2k Pro will think
about opening it for about 20-30 seconds then it prompts me with a
dialog to insert a disk in the drive. The only option on this dialog is
'Cancel'. There is a disk in the drive so I do not understand why W2k
Pro reports that there is no disk in the drive.
Has anyone ever heard/had this problem? How can I fix it? Will I have
to get a PCI floppy controller? Or what?
Thanks for any help,
Charles
I have a computer with an Intel SE440BX motherboard which only supports
1 floppy drive. Since I have installed all the BIOS updates I can
disable the motherboard floppy and install an add-in card in order to
get support for 2 floppy drives.
So, I installed an ISA (16-bit) multi I/O card and used the floppy, LPT
and serial ports. When booting from the floppy both floppy drives work
fine. The problem happens once W2k Pro boots from the hard drive. W2k
Pro sees the floppies and installed the drivers with no problems.
The problem is that both floppy drives do not work under W2k Pro. When
I insert a disk, double click on the A: drive icon W2k Pro will think
about opening it for about 20-30 seconds then it prompts me with a
dialog to insert a disk in the drive. The only option on this dialog is
'Cancel'. There is a disk in the drive so I do not understand why W2k
Pro reports that there is no disk in the drive.
Has anyone ever heard/had this problem? How can I fix it? Will I have
to get a PCI floppy controller? Or what?
Thanks for any help,
Charles